Microsoft's Iain McDonald: It's the end of a (Longhorn) era

Iain McDonald, a guy with the humble title of Director of Project Management for Windows Server, has had a long and deep impact on Microsoft's Windows organization. The 15-year Microsoft veteran has served on a variety of teams, from Product Support Services, to Exchange Server, to Windows Server. He was a leader on Windows 2000, ran the "War Room" for Windows XP and has been a key leader on every recent Windows release. On May 15, the day that Microsoft officially announced the "Windows Server 2008" product name, McDonald blogged about the end of the Whistler/Longhorn/Blackcomb era of Windows codenames: "I do have to say that the Longhorn name going away is a little sad to me – it’s the...